THE PERSON. THE POISONED GIFT.
THE PERSON. THE POISONED GIFT.
Edward Limonov: the prison conflict of the writer to a society.
Writer Edward Limonov has passed this article in "LG" from
lefortovskogo an insulator where it is already almost half a year.
The given publication not the certificate of sympathy to political views of the author.
Not artful reception from lawyer practice. Simply writer always
Remains the writer.
Especially if its talent is doubtless. And at it always is
The higher right: to address to the reader and to be heard. Certainly, in
Article can find both an extreme measure of estimations, and stylistic defects, and
Emotional perevozbuzhdennost. But we will not forget, that
It is written - in prison.
Undoubtedly one - before us the document of uncommon force. Behind it
- Unusual and dramatic human destiny.
When article already was in edition, to Edward Limonovu were
The new heavy accusations which have even more complicated it are brought
Fate...
Five months ago me have planted in lefortovskuju a fortress. To me
Honour to continue the list of the best Russian writers has dropped out,
Beginning with Radishcheva, Ryleyev, Shevchenko, Dostoevsky,
Bakunin, Chernyshevsky, Pisarev, Gumilev, Babel, Mandelshtama
And many other things, and hitherto coming to an end Solzhenitsynym and
Brodsky. I the first considerable writer flung in prison in
"Democratic" Russia.
Main "pomilyvatel" Russia the writer (!) Anatoly Pristavkin
Has told in my occasion "to the Literary newspaper":"Start up sits, where
Sits ". Hardly he tried to penetrate into an essence of my history: for what
Lefortovo Edward Limonov is arrested and is in SIZO. But,
Apparently, Prefixes perfectly remembers, how Lemons of years etak 10-12
Back, having entered into "Globa's" which is in the centre the bookshop
Paris, has broken kind pleasure of a meeting of readers with three
The writers who have arrived from Russia: with Mr. Pristavkinym, the mister
Dispersal and g-zhej Petrushevsky. Any scandal at all was not,
Lemons has only expressed howls of the Lion of Dispersal as about
To the second-grade camp literature, still something venomous has added.
The result - "main pomilyvatel" cannot hear about Limonove
Without disgust.
Here however it is necessary a little, that to the author of 30 books and so
Have thrown: "Let sits, where sits!" Enough, it appears,
One episode tens years ago. Vindictive pomilyvatel! Than
Still I could make angry it, after all unfortunate on dungeons not
Shot (opposite, they are members NBP, Natsional - Bolshevist
Parties sit on dungeons), Antisemitic speeches did not say.
I lead radical party? But after all the society furiously struggled
For cancellation of article of 6th Constitution of the USSR - for cancellation of monopoly of the CPSU
On political activity. Why NBP cannot take out
The ideology on people court to offer it? Want - take,
Vote for NBP, do not want - pass by us!.
When me have planted, it was suddenly found out, how it is a lot of people me
Hates. The militian newspaper "Moscow truth" - unique,
With which us stuff in prison, otherwise, as "lefortovskim
sideltsem ", me does not name and considers self-evident,
That such as I, should sit. And here that "MT" writes in number from
On July, 4th of this year: "Practice shows, that at desire to struggle with
Extremism the judicial system can and without application any
Special laws. Bright to volume an example - "having a rest" in
Lefortovsky SIZO the leader of the Russian natsional-Bolsheviks the writer
Lemons ".
E, e, wait a moment, g-yes militiamen from "the Moscow truth",
The judicial system while has told the half-words only time, when not
Has wanted to replace to me to court a preventive punishment. Took me on
To article 222, ch. 3 (and even the penknife at me was not!)
Not judicial system, and group of capture of FSB, I am imprisoned FSB, and
Inspectors of FSB investigate me. And I have all bases
To believe, that my arrest - political prosecution and
Corporate revenge.
When in 1964 judged absolutely still snotty, not written
Still anything considerable, beginning poet Brodsky, ours
The society reacted to court and a sentence more or less unanimously
- Indignantly. Edward Limonova's arrest, the author of 30 books, bright
The writer, on expression Wall Street Journal, brushed away
The Victorian web from Russian literature, quite probably, that
The largest modern writer of Russia, has called, excuse,
To spasm of pleasure at our society. No, thanks God, not at
All, thanks God, not at everything, but at many.
For what?
In Italy 60 and 70th years hated Pazolini. For all: dry,
Its gloomy physiognomy did not like, its arrogant customs. Hated for
That left, the communist, the homosexual, for a film "Fat, or 120
Days of the Row ", that conducts an"immoral"life, Pazolini
Wrote, that feels object on which it is focused
Hatred of the Italian bourgeoisie.
When I have moved to France in 1980, there completely
Ignored Jean Eugene - as if he has died. That has acted in
Protection of the rights of the Palestinian people, has stood up per lot "the black
Panthers ", for" gang Baadera ", i.e. was on the party of enemies
The bourgeois state. Jean Eugene responded the French society
Contempt and disgust: it disappeared from this society in
Cheap Arabian hotels of Paris, in one of them he also has died in 1986
To year.
Last certificate of its disobedience and disgust for the bourgeois
France there was a will to bury it on the Arabian cemetery in
To the North Africa. As soon as the message about death to Eugene has reached
The governments of France, in the Arabian hotel the minister of culture has rushed off
Jacque Lang, and to Eugene in one day became the great writer of France.
Thousand articles in newspapers and magazines, television movies, a stream have gone
To be republished books. Have bustled, being replaced, colloquiums and
Conferences. Pazolini, killed on waste ground in the Roman port Austin in
1975, the same fate has comprehended for 11 years earlier.
The states by the nature necrophilists - like the dead
Writers.
Pazolini and Eugene - last of Great Europe. The conflict with
The authorities - a sign of the big artist? Yes, one of signs. So
At least respect me! I so am strikingly similar to the previous
Damned geniuses, that to you, misters of the power and the Lord of a society, not
Comes to mind thought, what you deal with the Big Artist?
Besides to me do not incriminate murder, me have not seized with
Smoking pistol in hands so moderate ardent hatred,
Mr. Pristavkin!
Let's understand. Here you - somehow developed on ruins
The Soviet society. Here I. J.Chto at me is behind soul as at
The writer? The first wash the novel has been written in a shout genre. The first
The book has allocated me from crowd pestering literatures. There
There was everything of what the author can dream: the new hero, the new environment,
Exotic of America, the ruthless truth about the nature of the woman,
The ruthless truth about a society, shocking scenes. (They me
Most till now shock.) it there were steps further in the same
Direction in what has left Selin in "Travel on edge of night". It
It was healthy. "I wished to write such novel, but you me
Has outstripped ", - it was resulted to me to hear from several
Colleagues-writers.
What at me behind soul? Magnificent "the Diary of the Loser",
krasnoznamennaja "we had a Great epoch", "Teenager Sovenko"
(Strikingly similar on "Rabatstsy" (boys) - the novel and a film
Pazolini), even "Executioner" - a genre more low, but outstripped on
Ten years become fashionable the American novels in S#п style.
Some volumes of brawny stories, beautiful
The zelenovato-gold mininovel "Death of modern heroes".
Exposing and biting research "Disciplinary
Sanatorium ", a preparing western society of soft violence.
Military reportings from "hot points", collected in two books:
"Murder of the sentry" and "Anatomy of the hero". At last, verses, articles,
The newspaper "Limonka", Natsional - Bolshevist party, my women,
My motley life full of adventures which would suffice on
Some lives. Geography and character of these adventures the intolerable
With cutting light arrest attention and in "Murder of the sentry", and in
"Anatomy of the hero", and in "to the Book dead", and in just written
In prison "water Book". The Track record to which will envy
Any writer of any epoch. Is not worse at all, than at the last
Great, than at Pazolini and Eugenes.
It would seem, the Native land, I yours, take and own! All I is that,
Than you can be proud. Than still the Native land, as not can be proud
Quality of the talented people born by it - slightly mad
hemingueev, oruellov, millerov, pazolini... My Native land has appeared
It is blind and deaf. Its tradition - zamordovat the talented person and
To be proud of it, having tortured.
Well, the God from it, with the Native land, is still a society - a certain Council
Visible and hidden elders, the general spirit of the nation. And here when me
Have planted, it has appeared, Council of visible and hidden elders of Russia, it
SOCIETY hate me plebeian hatred. Similarly Pazolini,
I can repeat after it, that I became original object, on
Which hatred of a society was focused.
The kommuno-fascist, the biting, explosive editor, the journalist,
Attacking all from the Swan and Zyuganov, FSB and Putin to the people
("Limonka in the people") and Lenin ("Limonka in Lenin"), the suspect
In homosexuality for scenes in the first novel, I excellent object for
Hatred. Certainly, if to consider, that ideal type of Russian
The person is the retired military man who has established a check point in
Entrance for protection against suspicious strangers, yes, Lemons
Prevents vegetativno to exist to respectable citizens. And in
Opposite case, in all other cases it turns out: I yours
The genius whom one were going to to torture, and others - to applaud
To it. Has reached?
About Brodsky will suffice to shed tears. (In 1964 you and from it
Have turned away!) with Brodsky have driven! 37 years ago it has got off
Easy fright. Surprisingly, you, a society, do not think, that
Now there is the worst, than to Brodsky. I do not recognise the
Fault, but me accuse of purchase of the weapon for the purpose of its sending on
Altai, and then to Kazakhstan to struggle for the rights of Russian in
Kazakhstan. And who accuses? The State Office of Public Prosecutor and FSB of Russia! If
Kazakhstan, it would be clear. It is possible to think, that Russian in
Kazakhstan happily live, not testing oppressions. As though
There are no terrible certificates in Kazakh prisons Suprunjuka,
Ismailov, Kolomtsa, Sidorovoj, Elenas Savchenkos! Her have raped, and
Then have forced to dig to itself a tomb. Participants of the Shanghai contract
Smile each other, meeting in beautiful palaces, and 5 with the superfluous
Millions Russian in Kazakhstan live in horror.
I, admit, waited for the help from a society. Anyway, not
Expected such hatred. For such considerable quantity did not wait. In what
Here business? Why it the retired military man is more preferable,
Arranged at a check point entrance, rather than the Big Writer? After all was still
37 years ago Brodsky is more preferable. Well it is necessary to tell, as
Then far not all were for Brodsky. It expresses now
Unanimity - all have stuck. Joseph, by the way, after all has not excused to you,
The ashes bequeathing anywhere to put, whether in Venice, whether in
nju - York, but in the Western hemisphere, but not in Russia, here to you!
It is available accruing mangy plebejskost our society.
Domestic collectives have blossomed, revive national teams, repair
Locks, hang up in set new, retired vohrovtsy set the fashion
Lives. Raises steadily and suspiciously total national
Product, it somehow instantly consider, soon, you look, and figures
jajtsenoskosti and figures of yields of milk will spread upwards.
In that perfect new world there will be a place only for leaders
The manufactures, the deserved workers of FSB and for the deserved footmen
Mihalkovyh. Lemons obviously superfluous among you. I belong to another
To race of the disappeared monsters. But I will leave to you the poisoned gift.
Your children will eat you, hating you for your mediocrity.
Restoration is when Revolution is not has gone right and was made
Recoil back. But revolution what-any rypnulas, and consequently
Pure restoration sovdepa is impossible. It is impossible. In it
Inevitably some elements proisshedshej or only enter
rypnuvshejsja revolutions. When after 26 years of revolution and
Bonaparte's revolutionary epoch in 1815 on bayonets allied
Armies Paris has entered Burbon and began to correct under Louis name
XVIII, in its transport there have arrived emigrants-actors, but Burbon could not
To manage and without odious figures of a previous mode. Talejran,
Fushe - only the most known among tens thousand. Restoration -
It always a mix of the old past with last mode. Therefore
Oligarchs at Putin's throne adjoin to employees of the Soviet
Special services, with Mikhalkov and Solzhenitsynym. Here in what difficult
The period it was resulted to me to sit down in lefortovsky the lock.
Let's understand, that at me behind soul as at the politician. I have arrived to
To you about ten years ago as the repatriate with open soul also has accepted
Participation in your struggle which became mine. It not I have changed in
The extremist, it you, the Russian SOCIETY, have refused ideals
That time, including from ideals Saharova. It you were afraid
Also have allowed to seize power again in the country burbonam and them
To satraps in epaulets. You even after all have not destroyed Russian Bastile and,
Moreover, have prevented to destroy it another. Symbolically Lefortovo
It was saved in all its shine gebeshnoj prisons.
Why you rejoice, what Lemons sits? Amazingly, the head
The commissions on the pardon dares to paraphrase Alexander
II. "Let will sit!" - it has been told by the emperor concerning A.A.
Kropotkina, the brother of the known theorist of anarchism. Alexander
Kropotkin has sat 12 years in Siberia and has committed suicide.
The concept about the one whom to consider as the extremist, can change in
Current of several months, and extremists in the opinion of the state
Tomorrow there are those who names today that me. Still being
On an ox then yet have not dispersed NTV, I spoke: "Freedom
There is only one on all and for all. When the mister
Gusinsky limited freedom of Mr. Limonova, not supposing it on
NTV, bubnja "the extremist, the extremist", was already clear, that soon
Will be wishing to limit freedom of Mr. Gusinsky ".
When me have planted, radio "Echo of Moscow" has invited mine
Lawyer Sergey Beljaka to talk about my arrest. Probably,
Heads of "Echo" felt, that their radio station soon
Will pass under "Gazprom" control, i.e. the states. And it will ruin,
As have ruined NTV, because also NTV, and "Echo" for the state
Restorations - extremists. "The new newspaper", has passed me mine
The lawyer, does not wish to publish materials about extremist Limonove,
In spite of the fact that I stated often the liking to a position
"The new newspaper" and its journalists. Children, here nearby are still
Free chambers... And at the left, and to the right of me, for all spectrum
Extremists of the Russian Federation.
Because at us the mangy society, the second edition is formed
sovdepa where tone set retired vohrovtsy and informers. Because
Short-sighted intolerance in a society stirs to dialogue between
Various forces of a society. In a prize appear: the reactionary
The state, power departments and special services. Who has pasted to me
Label "extremist"? Not I. In 1995 magazine "Bear"
Has offered Javlinsky that I have interviewed it for magazine.
The Javlinsky has indignantly refused. And I was ready, me this
Experiment seemed interesting.
If the mode of Restoration does not want to admit Grigory
Alekseevicha and its "Apple" to following elections in the State Duma and
"Will clamp" at it any one and a half or half of percent, it
Position will be only hardly more enviable, than at the extremist
Limonova.
I challenge, that I am an extremist. I - bright, biting, bright,
Behind a word in a pocket I do not climb, polemical, inconsiderate in polemic,
But I - reasonable.
In the end of 1993 on elections in the Tver district I supported
That Ministry of Railways bought cars
"Domestic production", in particular, production Tver
Car-building factory, instead of German. Then such healthy
Position skandalizirovala, I remember, electoral committee, the authorities and the most part
Voters. To me have not allowed to meet workers Tver
Car-building at them at factory, despite the certificate
The candidate. The matter is that the administration prepared
Dismissal of three thousand workers. I that, was the extremist? Through
Eight years today the idiot and that understands, that the preference follows
To give to a domestic production.
In 1994 the Natsional-Bolshevist party has let out the poster:
"Encourage Russian manufacturer, boycott the foreign
The goods! "We demanded to forbid advertising of foreign production on
TV. Bitingly wrote: "If your child pulls hands to
"Snickers" and "tviks" - give it on hands "...
I remember polemizing with me in this occasion of citizens.
"The Russian cars - a shit! Why I should go on
The car of the Russian manufacture?! "- shouted to me with foam at
Mouth. I responded: "you should as the citizen. To support ours
The manufacturer, our economy ". I understood all these things to term,
On seven, for ten years forward. Therefore I the extremist that understood
Forward? And understood because has lived 20 years in the West.
Natsional-Bolshevist party of a scarecrow of the inhabitant the sharp
Slogans? The slogan on a genre already should be exaggeration. However
We have sensitively understood the first, that it is necessary to protect Russian in the countries
The CIS, all 27 million. What helpless, lazy and Soviet
There was a Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation when I have addressed to
It behind the consular help after arrest of 15 natsional-Bolsheviks in
Sevastopol! The peace action we have reminded the Ukrainian authorities about
Claims of Russia for Russian earth of a city of Sevastopol. I -
The extremist? It has appeared, representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had no even
Instructions to visit the Russian citizens who have appeared in prisons in
Other states. Though any consulate of any Sierra Leone
Sends the consul to prison to visit the citizens, even if they
Are arrested for drug traffic. I am an extremist, because
Has reminded the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of its duties?
Clearly, that in the one-party state (and Russia became
Actually sanguineous one-party state) everyone
The initiative from the party, even the patriotic initiative, not only
It is not encouraged, but it is punished. Therefore maliciously and disgust
Special services on our just in every respect struggle looked
For the rights of Russian in Latvia. Since August, 1998 from the date of its arrest
Party "Vasily Kononova's business", and it we individually was engaged
Have untwisted it, have made its arrest and court over it visible Russia,
Have spent so much meetings, pickets and bright actions that is impossible
Began not to notice "business Kononova". And at last the president has interfered
Putin, the decree has given Kononovu the Russian citizenship. Latvians
Have retired to the background and have released the old guerrilla from the prison. In the first
Evening on freedom Kononov has invited to itself home the head
Riga natsbolov Kostju Mihajljuka and the ambassador of Russia Udaltsova.
Well as it was possible to take out such insult further: as
It was possible to allow "extremist" political party
To appear ahead of the state in struggle for the rights of Russian for
Boundary? In the autumn of 2000 the lieutenant colonel of FSB M.Kuznetsov has personally removed
From a train Sankt-peterburg - Kaliningrad our natsional-Bolsheviks,
Going on the action to Latvia. And when there has gone 14
November other group natsional - Bolsheviks, them have simply handed over
To the Latvian special services. The action reflected the peace. Despite of
Supervision of all special services, three natsional-Bolsheviks all taki
Occupied St. Peter's Cathedral in Riga on November, 17th and were
Are arrested.
Nightingale and ZHurkin have received for 15 years of imprisonment! A sentence
To weight of XIX century also sends to Alexander II, when that in
Herzen's intercepted letter to Russian addressee it has been mentioned
His name, Chernyshevsky has paid with two years in Peter and Paul
Fortresses and the subsequent long years of penal servitude and the link.
I am an extremist? Or I live in the country, in which, as in the sick
To head of the maniac, all values have turned over? A nightingale, ZHurkin and
Gafarov (has received 5 years) freedom for old men-security officers demanded in
The Latvian prisons, freedom for Savenko, Farbtuha and others,
Suffrages for 900 thousand Russian in Latvia, freedom for
The four companions arrested in Daugavpils!
... To Altai I was going to to move, therefore went there
Some times since spring of 2000 accompanied by children from
Parties for others I do not know. Two from them, it is necessary such
To happen, are killed. Victor Zolotaryov tochnenko at night with 17 on 18
November, when natsional-Bolsheviks the Nightingale, ZHurkin and Gafarov
Have grasped St. Peter's Cathedral in Riga. Left at 23.30 from the leader
E.Bersenev's Barnaul natsional-Bolsheviks behind cigarettes and not
Has returned. By the morning its corpse has been found out nearby to the house
Bersenev, has been thrown out from a window.
Zolotaryov have quickly buried, have hastily excited criminal case,
Having managed not to interrogate Bersenev. And questions actually
There was a set on Zolotaryov's body. For example, when it
Has died? Before it have dumped from a window? And whether were on its body
Traces of tortures?
Deliberating over all it in the chamber, I reject, that I
The extremist. Victor Zolotaryov violent customs did not differ, was
It is poor, 1958 of a birth. The major in resignation Alexander Burygin -
The father of two adult children, instead of the hooligan spending the nights in
Fights. It was 1952 of a birth. In total on Altai with me
The handful of people has visited... I think. And dates... Is over what
To think and to Mironov, and Kovalevu, and even Pristavkinu. And to all
To SOCIETY, at which with me the conflict.
There will be a court. It is significant, that, besides I the first
The considerable writer in the Russian prison since times Solzhenitsyna,
I also the first chairman of the political party who has appeared for
Lattice of pseudo-democratic Russia.
Yes undress eyes! We dissidents of this mode. I want, that
Vladimir Bukovsky was my public defender.
P.S. Has just read in prison "MT" as Lev Tolstoi searched
Last shelter among Serbs. The author of article admires
Nikolay Raevskim (a prototype Vronsky in the novel "Anna
Karenina "), gone to be at war for freedom of Serbs in Serbia. I
Was at war in three Serbian wars, went to attack to Moslems under
Sarajevo though somebody has sometime shaken hands with me for it?!
Our Russian society is blind, deafly and disgustingly!
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//* an information Source: the Literary newspaper, 12.09.01
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